China’s move toward methanol has supplier Freudenberg-NOK in the midst of $50,000 study to determine the fuel’s effects on gaskets, seals and other rubber and plastic parts.
“Economic purists may call our industry archaic, past our use-by-date,” FCAI CEO says. “The term ‘rust bucket’ seems to flow easily from…poisonous pens. But this characterization could not be further from the...